{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Aaron Gross","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/Rongwrong","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"181410","username":"Rongwrong","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":22,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Aaron Gross","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2022/181410.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"16365510","content_html":"Re last post, here’s how I almost became a settler by accident once.\nI was moving to Jerusalem for a year, and I had never been to Israel before, didn’t know anything about it. Someone there in Jerusalem was helping me find an apartment to rent.\nShe found an apartment for rent in the Je... rongwrong.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/2023/01/30/re-last-post.html","date_published":"2023-01-30T06:38:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Gross","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F181410.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Rongwrong"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-30 06:38","date_timestamp":1675060710,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"16365357","content_html":"

I’m thinking of maybe becoming a settler in the next few years.

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Like moving to the outskirts of Jerusalem, because I miss living in Jerusalem so much! But housing is so expensive in Jerusalem inside the Green Line.

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I almost became a settler by accident. Now maybe on purpose?

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I think it’s unintentionally funny that the bakery שיבולת transliterated their name as “Sibolet”

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The only “Sixties movies” (🎥 from and about “the Sixties”) I can think of that still hold up today are Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and _Medium Cool _

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This is a nice time of year to visit Syria. If you look closely you can see the peasants with their tractor, carefully tending their vineyards which will produce a bountiful harvest of grapes for their local wines.

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What’s even the point of half-and-half? Is it really better in your coffee than regular cream or milk? (And why milk not cream, anyway? That’s another question I’ve got.) Do half-and-half drinkers believe they’ve found the optimal proportions?

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Bell, Book and Candle (1958) is a nice, underrated movie for Christmas (well, wintertime). It’s a romcom starring James Stewart and Kim Novak with a great supporting cast: Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, and Elsa Lanchester. Witches as Greenwich Village bohemians. 🍿

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@mitch I can’t figure it out either, I think it may be a property of the micro.blog formatting, and also I really liked It’s Garry Shandling’s Show but I liked The Larry Sanders Show even better

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@richnewman Yeah I agree about “Looking East…”, those examples are more blatant than the ones I mentioned. Way too much imagining going on. It’s not even the stereotypes themselves that bother me, as much as his implicitly ascribing them to the actual people rather than presenting the stereotypical images as a sort of fantasy of the speaker.

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@JMaxB Yeah, I don’t have an answer to that question either. You’d think the people who used RSS would be exactly the sort of people who’d put in the minimal amount of effort to find a replacement reader. But they didn’t.

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@adders Right, I didn’t mean that Google literally caused the demise of RSS. I also switched to a different reader when they discontinued theirs. But for whatever reason, lots of people didn’t.

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@adders As I remember, it was just that business decision by Google that killed RSS, against user protests. It’s not like people ever voluntarily gave up on RSS or anything.

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I read substack posts via RSS. That whole email newsletter protocol, push vs. pull, just seems so…pushy.

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Planning the 2020s nostalgia parties for a couple decades from now:

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OK what else?

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@poritsky I’m also new here, but still on Twitter. (Mastodon’s out of the question for me.) I think of micro.blog as just a place to talk to myself.

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That’s initially how I viewed Twitter, but gradually I got to be part of a real, small community of Twitter mutuals. So who knows?

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@richnewman That was a really nice review. I hope you will start posting links to your reviews here.

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I looked up “Looking East From Mt. Scopus”, and I agree with you, though I wouldn’t call it “dehumanization”. I didn’t like his “I imagine” and “knowing”, or that sarcastic “things have a way of disappearing in these hills”. Politics aside, it’s a speaker projecting his point of view onto something he doesn’t know.

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About your comments on “Bombing Gaza”, I wonder if it matters that the last word in the poem was “Hamas” and not “Gaza”? You say “Hamas/Gaza” and then move from there to just “Gaza”.

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I think it was a bad poem, but not a justification of attacks on civilians. Unless it was a sneaky way of endorsing just that (alluding to Sodom and Gomorrah, entire cities) while overtly denying it (“Hamas”), which would be truly barbaric.

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Anyway, I liked your review of this poet I’d never heard of. I hope you’ll post more of them.

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@richnewman Yeah, “the agony of defeat”

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@richnewman I used to really enjoy the opening of Wide World of Sports. You know the part I mean.

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@channah I have a problem myself with being negative. Way back in the days of Usenet, the idea was that replying to a post just to say “I agree” or whatever was “wasting bandwidth”. So we tended to reply to an initial post mostly when we disagreed.

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I think it’s a problem with all text-based social media. If an online exchange had the text equivalent of real-life head-nodding, uh-huh-ing, etc., it would be unreadable. But without that it can be negative.

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(Not to blame it on the media—to be honest, dunking on strangers can be fun and I’ve done it myself even though I knew what I was doing was bad.)

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@channah Yeah I also see this mostly as a place to talk to myself. I’ve posted some super-niche things that are just me getting my thoughts down in front of me.

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But I wish there were more open (polite) disagreement here. Ideally the best aspects of both micro.blog and Twitter.

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@MultoGhost I’m not even a science fiction fan actually. I used to read some of it when I was a teenager but that’s about it. Just happened to see some OL episodes a few years ago and liked them, as good drama more than for science fiction. Never got into Agatha Christie either 🤷‍♂️

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@MultoGhost I never even heard of Poirot (saw the Murder on the Orient Express movie).

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I like Twilight Zone too but I think I like Outer Limits even better. Just saw a few episodes though.

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Introduce yourself with five TV shows 📺

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Interesting point by Tanisha Fazal in a podcast interview about her latest book:

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An unintended consequence of international humanitarian law is that states are more reluctant to sign peace treaties. Treaties acknowledge there was a war, hence liability for prosecution under IHL.

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@bitdepth Loved that movie! I also really liked “Red Desert” and “Blow Up”. I think they still still hold up, even “Blow Up” with the dated cultural references and all the parodies of it.

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@miljko Yeah I really liked that post, but this one line kinda bothered me: “If you’re trying to get through your work as quickly as you can, then maybe you should see if you can find a different line of work.”

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That’s fine if you’re talking to a professional pundit, but most people can’t choose jobs they really like. For most people a job is something to finish so you can go home.

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Me: Write a typical micro.blog post

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GPT-3:

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Hey everyone! Today was a great day. I had the chance to get some fresh air and go for a nice long walk. It was a great way to clear my head and enjoy some time outside. Hope everyone had a great day too! #goodvibes #positivethoughts

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\n","summary":"","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/2022/12/03/me-write-a.html","date_published":"2022-12-03T13:58:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Gross","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F181410.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Rongwrong"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-03 13:58","date_timestamp":1670075911,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"14617346","content_html":"I’m not sure GPT-3 really understands the concept of parody.\nWrite a parody of “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.\n\nDulce et Decorum Est,\nTo laugh and joke and jest,\nTo make a fool of life,\nAnd never take a rest.\n\n\nThe gas and bombs and shells,\nThe trenches and the smells,\nThe mud a... rongwrong.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/2022/12/03/im-not-sure.html","date_published":"2022-12-03T12:03:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Gross","url":"https://rongwrong.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F181410.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Rongwrong"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-12-03 12:03","date_timestamp":1670069014,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"14612859","content_html":"

@patrickrhone Does anyone know of any good techniques for learning to read slowly? I try to read slowly, but after a few pages I forget and start reading fast. (They gave me speed-reading lessons in elementary school, with one of those machines, messed up my reading for life.)

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Muriel Spark 📚 I’ve read, ranked (not to be taken seriously):

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  1. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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  2. Loitering with Intent
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  3. The Girls of Slender Means
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  4. The Mandelbaum Gate
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  5. The Driver’s Seat
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  6. The Public Image
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  7. A Far Cry From Kensington
    8. \n
  8. Memento Mori
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  9. Not to Disturb
    10. \n
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I live near a daycare center. I really enjoy the sound of little children playing, knowing that someone else is responsible for watching them.

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It’s like that wonderful feeling a new parent gets when he hears someone else’s child crying and it registers, “Not my responsibility!”

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Chantal Mouffe on the moralizing “good democrats”: rongwrong.micro.blog

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@navalang That probably is the most consequential thing about Twitter, and if so, I’m happy to be (ab)using Twitter as social media. To me it’s mostly a place for a small community of like-minded mutuals. Sometimes the conversations are about the Latest Thing, but often not.

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@brentsimmons Usenet was social media too, avant la lettre. Even more so than blogs I’d say.

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I wonder, what were some of the first (pre-electronic) social media? At first I thought letters to the editor. But graffiti on walls must be the earliest?

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“The other day a Ukrainian TV station contacted me and asked me whether we could do an interview about what spending one’s life in the shadow of a large and aggressive neighbor is like.”

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Interesting post by military historian Martin van Creveld. Wish he’d write more on it!

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So this thing about the smell called “zankha” is going around Twitter. I think I’ve noticed it too!

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I never really paid attention to it though. Dunno if I can detect it reliably, maybe gotta do some blind experiments.

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Also 23andMe says I’m 1.2% Levantine. Hmm…🤔

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Obligatory sunset pic

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@miljko thanks!

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@miljko What are your favorite mechanical pencils for that? (Question is to all the mechanical pencil users here.)

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@MultoGhost That was my reaction too. On the other hand maybe it’s just modesty, like “If you ask my opinion I’ll be happy to discuss, didn’t want to impose”?

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But yeah an initial comment on a book or movie would be nice; it’s not face-to-face communication. Glad you posted that!

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@artkavanagh I’ve only ever used a hand grinder, no desire to use electric.

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On the other hand when grinding coffee just this morning, still half-asleep, I forgot to first screw on the glass container. Ground coffee all over the floor. Classic problem of trying to make coffee when you need coffee.

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@jean Thanks, yeah that makes sense and it’s obviously working!

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@jean The other side of that is that the Discover tab really is unrepresentative, apparently curated that way by design: no controversial topics, etc.

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I looked at micro.blog a few times over the years and decided not to join, based only on Discover. I think it sells you short!

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@Annie When I was growing up in the St. Louis area the white people I knew said “ask” and most black people I knew said “aks.” There at least it was an ethnic and also a class thing. Middle-class blacks said “ask.”

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